Question for UVic

[LukeT]

on your 99 car from 2002, what were you doing with your sidepods? I found one picture on your website that I could see pavement through the (driver's) left pod, never seen a better view of the right one. Those seem to be the design that we may try this year, as historically our team hasn't done too much body design/work...
How did those work for you? I see that this past year you changed to the low, more forward mounted pods that so many teams run, is there a reason for that that isn't top secret?

Thanks!


-Luke Thompson
Vandals Racing 2003-04
University of Idaho

[LukeT]

on your 99 car from 2002, what were you doing with your sidepods? I found one picture on your website that I could see pavement through the (driver's) left pod, never seen a better view of the right one. Those seem to be the design that we may try this year, as historically our team hasn't done too much body design/work...
How did those work for you? I see that this past year you changed to the low, more forward mounted pods that so many teams run, is there a reason for that that isn't top secret?

Thanks!


-Luke Thompson
Vandals Racing 2003-04
University of Idaho

[Richard Lewis]

Oops, missed this post for quite some time.

The UV02 (car 99) pods weren't really fuctional, and were a last minute addition. In fact, we had to nix them in order to have a bigger radiator during our summer testing. I really don't think they were worth while, but we felt we needed them to make it a race car. http://fsae.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_wink.gif

http://www.members.shaw.ca/drax77/Projects/Photos/UV02/108-0815_IMG-sm.jpg http://www.members.shaw.ca/drax77/Projects/Photos/UV02/109-0977_IMG-sm.jpg

On UV03 (2003) the pods were functional and a whole lot nicer IMHO.

http://www.members.shaw.ca/drax77/Projects/Photos/UV03/DSC02566-sm.jpg http://www.members.shaw.ca/drax77/Projects/Photos/UV03/flow1-sm.jpg

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[albrewe]

What program are you using for your flow analysis Richard, if you don't mind me asking?

Thanks,

Andrew Brewer
Formula SAE Racing Lobos
University of New Mexico

E-mail: Albrewe@aol.com

[Richard Lewis]

That particular program was flowworks, a solidworks plugin. Its quite intuitive and very fast in the world of CFD. That particular image and test was done for more of a sponsor/department eye candy shot, than to gather any meaningful data.

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[albrewe]

Richard,
Thanks for the info! I'll definitely check it out. http://fsae.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_smile.gif

Regards,
Andy

[LukeT]

Thanks for replying Richard http://fsae.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_smile.gif We've got our preliminary cooling design wrapped up, and looks like there's a good chance we'll be doing the conventional sidepods (woohoo, I get to do bodywork!).
At HPV competition last year, I saw lots of people using FLUENT for their aerodynamics, but we looked into that, and that $2450 price tag for an academic seat is just a little too spendy. We've got Algor, but few people really know how to run it. Will have to look into flowworks.


-Luke Thompson
Vandals Racing 2003-04
University of Idaho

[Richard Lewis]

In my limited experience, it is definately worth the time and effort to learn Algor, as its a very good program and pretty easy to use too.

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